Perche, _s._ perch, 30¼ sq. yards, 12/5. Perfyte, _adj._ perfect, 141/5. Perseth, _pr. s._ pierceth, 141/8. Peruse, _v._ to go through with, continue, 131/15; _imp. s._ 124/35; examine, 40/23; survey, 30/7. Perysshynge, _s._ piercing, 62/17. See the note. Peter, St., 155/13. Peyhenne, _s._ peahen, 146/28. Peynes, _s._ pains; a disease in a horse’s fetlocks, 111/1. Pikstaues, _s. pl._ pikestaves (but here used, apparently, of a part of a cart, possibly the supports of the shafts), 5/23. Pill, _v._ to peel, _note_ to 55/16. Plasshed, _pp._ plashed, 127/19. See below. Plasshynge, _s._ plashing, 124/2. To plash is to lower and close up a broad-spread hedge, by partially cutting off the branches, and entwining them with those left upright. Playster, _s._ plaister, 164/22. Pleched, _pp._ pleached, plashed, 127/22. _See_ Plasshynge. Pleytes, _s. pl._ plaits, folds, 151/17. Ploughe-beame, _s._ plough-beam, 3/2, 9. See note to 3/1. Ploughe-eare, _s._ plough-ear, 3/5, 42; 4/34. See note to 3/1. Ploughe-fote, _s._ plough-foot, 3/5, 38. See note to 3/1. Plough-geare, _s._ instruments requisite for ploughing, 5/45. Ploughehedde, _s._ the same as the share-beam, 2/10. _See_ Sharbeame. Ploughe-mal, _s._ plough-hammer or mallet, 3/6. See note to 3/1. Ploughe-shethe, _s._ plough-sheath, 2/3. See note to 3/1. Plough-stylte, _s._ the right-hand handle of a plough, 3/21. See note to 3/1. Ploughetayle, _s._ the left-hand and longer handle of the plough, 2/23; 3/15, 19. Ploughe-yren, _s._ plough-iron, iron part of a plough (share and coulter), 5/2; ploughe-yrons, _pl._ 2/19. Plowe, _v._ plough, 6/14. Plowes, _s. pl._ ploughs, 2/1. Plummes, _s. pl._ plums, 136/4, 140/1. Plyenge, _pres. pt._ bending, 24/14. Pockes, _s. pl._ pocks, pustules, a disease in sheep, 49/1. Pole, 12/5. _See_ Perche. Polerd wheat, _s._ coarse wheat, pollard wheat, 34/23. So called because it has _no awns_: to _poll_ is to clip, etc. _See_ Pollard. Poleyn, _s. pl._ poultry, fowls, 146/21. Pollard, short-horned, said of a ram, _note_ to 37/6. _See_ Polerd. Pommes, pumice, 142/4; pomis, 100/6. Ponch, _s._ punch, 139/9. Pondre, _v._ to ponder, consider, 153/28. Poores, _s. pl._ pores, 70/26. Popeler, _s._ poplar, 130/5. Potte, _s._ pot; good for the potte, good for boiling, 146/35. Pottell, _s._ a pottle, two quarts, 44/8. Potycarye, _s._ an apothecary, 120/8. Pouertee, _s._ poverty, 147/15. Pourpose, _v._ purpose, intend, 27/19. Poynte, _s._ a tagged lace, 142/5. Practyue, _s._ practice, 4/29; practiue, 141/21. Predication, _s._ preaching, 154/19. Prefixe, _v._ to fix beforehand, 157/7. Processe, _s._ relation, story, tale, 2/29, 120/13; in processe, in course of time, 127/8. Profe, _s._ proof, 161/24. Proferre, _v._ to put into, insert, 138/13.